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[READ: January 2, 2024] “Evolution”
I used to read a New Yorker story every week. And then life caught up with me. I haven’t read them in a while, but after reading the Short Story Advent Calendar, I’d forgotten how much I enjoyed reading a short story, so I grabbed a handful of magazines from my unread stack (1 resolution for 2024 is to read all the magazines in this enormous pile) and started with this one.
I didn’t love this story probably because it started as one thing and turned into something else (evolution much?).
Set in 1974, the story opens wit Cara dancing on a fire escape in New York City. She slipped and broke her leg. She has a terrible memory of the hospital and a guy who had been sitting with a friend but who just left him there. (more…)
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